Dude

Load the car and write the note

Grab your bag and grab your coat

Tell the ones that need to know

We are headed north

One foot in and one foot back

But it don't pay to live like that

So I cut the ties and I jumped the tracks

For never to return

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in

Are you aware the shape I'm in

My hands they shake, my head it spins

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in

When at first I learned to speak

I used all my words to fight

With him and her and you and me

Oh but it's just a waste of time

Yeah it's such a waste of time

That woman she's got eyes that shine

Like a pair of stolen polished dimes

She asked to dance I said it's fine

I'll see you in the morning time

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in

Are you aware the shape I'm in

My hands they shake, my head it spins

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in

Three words that became hard to say

I and love and you

What you were then, I am today

Look at the things I do

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in

Are you aware the shape I'm in

My hands they shake my head it spins

Ah Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in

Dumbed down and numbed by time and age

Your dreams to catch the world, the cage

The highway sets the traveler's stage

All exits look the same

Three words that became hard to say

I and love and you

I and love and you

I and love and you

you are a character. I'm only vaguely familiar with the VU's stuff and not so much Lou. Good joke. On a side note, what's wrong with recording on a 4 - track? I think that's what Ween used for their first couple of records... granted i wouldn't put any of thier first couple of records on a list of this sort anyways. I guess i get your point. I also think the joke might be on me... but whatever, it always makes me happy to make people smile.

Nah, not you specifically, just me being a general smartass. Welcome to VC.

In all seriousness, a lot of the albums already mentioned would be pretty high on my list. I don't have much further to add other than small bursts of stupidity.

thanks for getting us back on track, Dude. Have a caucasian on me.

It was a bit of a joke nomination. MMM was actually recorded on a 4-track in Lou's apartment, which probably disqualifies it for that alone, not even getting into what's on the record itself.

Here's a clip with a short Tweedy interview, it also shows a little bit of their performance.

Too bad you can't really hear anything.

Here's the Dude singing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8monRJzzvU

Male camel toe should be banned from the Internet.

Oh really?!!

Excellent point.

Are you sure you're a dude, dude? The opne you put is weird but that other one is fine in my book, as is the negligee one.

She looks good, but she's selling her music, not her boobies.

My god, the woman has some horrendously awful album covers. This one is going to give me nightmares:

 

 

Sure was. I was turning 14 that year, my friends and I saw it several times on the cinema screen. So I guess you could say I was one of the first Rusties, haha (and maybe one of the youngest). We were doing a lot of "recreationals" in those days, but the Cow Palace shows on film left a lasting impression on me...especially the performances of Thrasher, Like A Hurricane, Powderfinger, and Cortez. Still one of my all time favorite concert films.

I wonder how all the goofiness with the Road Eyes / Jawas would have come off with a few more recreationals. They are a bit silly sober.

Linda is a beautiful sultry looking woman, Carly not so much. I swear it's actually Mick Jagger trying to establish himself as a female singer songwriter.

You talking about this one? She has the whole braless thing going on here:

And I totally agree that Crazy Heart was worthy of a nomination. I've seen it twice already and though the story is not overly complex and could be anyone's story, it's that very fact that makes it an amazing story. It's real, and aside from the fallen-star aspect, it could be the story of anyone with a substance abuse problem, and those who want to love them.

Amen. I could easily watch that movie again. And what a soundtrack, huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIJTU9iY2iA

He does not look well; I feel for the guy, and wish him well. He had the same facial injuries in his last mug shot, IIRC - I wonder if it is drug-use-related injury? I mean, related to drug use outside of getting clocked by a cop.

I wondered that myself, like he's shooting into the bridge of his nose or something. Not healthy looking.

Cocaine and alcohol:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/feb/03/medical-examiner-cites-cocaine-toxicity-alcohol-de/

Black tar heroin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hihp_Jjdnsg

Here's part 1 for anyone interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvPrCUpBEO8

You can see Wilco (yes see, not hear) at 2:07 while you hear Jason Mraz butchering Lotta Love. Sucks ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyvrzsmkMyM

Chapman's obsession with Catcher was more vague, and the connection seemed more troubling to me. Where Manson just seemed nutso, Chapman was quiet, composed. The book seemed dangerous.

I was just responding to this. A lot of people (not even you, SS, more people in the media) have suggested Catcher was dangerous due to the connections between killers or attempted killers. Apparently you yourself bought into that hype a bit too much prior to reading Catcher, and that's a shame. Obviously the actual novel has about as much to do with killing celebs as Helter Skelter has to do with starting a race war.

I think it's yet another reason a guy like Salinger withdrew into his shell.

Not that I've seen any of the nominated best pics, but I saw Crazy Heart and while I enjoyed it for the music and the performances, the story itself was very conventional. Dude is amazing. Bobby D drops by about 3/4th into the picture as The Bartender With All The Answers. Wraps up way too tidy.

See, I thought the film could have gone in a million different cliched directions but didn't, like:

Why is that the producers are sticking some new person with some old performer?

There's the whole passing of the torch thing, I guess. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyX5l7BvAz4

Taylor almost seems tone deaf at times. She would not make it through the first round of American Idol. But god bless her, at least she writes her own songs.

Sure she would. She's hawt, and that keeps people in for at least 3-4 rounds.

Autumn comes you sit in your chair and you stare

At the TV square

Hiding in the deep end

Weeding out the weekends

And Television is of course the Devil. There you have it.